Jet Bin FeverPretty cool actually. I have a little over 40 acres in middle Tennessee, and I've been thinking about building my own little apocalypse shack. Seems pretty fun.

American StandardFrom what I've seen and heard second hand, it's like plural marriage. If it works for you, it's because you've hit the right balance and you basically came wired for it. It really, REALLY works, and you're happy to evangelical proportions. But if it doesn't, it's a total fucking disaster. There is no saying "Eh, s'alright" to composting toilets, solar panel maintenance and squeezing your life into 200 square feet.

And as a comment on the original video: If it actually takes you 30 years to pay your 30-year mortgage, you're doing it wrong.

TSRSeems like a bad idea to let your human waste leech into your potable water, but let's just see how this case study pans out.

StanleyPainI actually read a really good book on this kind of small-house self sufficiency living thing. In short: it basically doesn't work unless you are wealthy enough to afford the initial start-up costs, after which it works very well. Unfortunately, this movement, which originally started as a sort of green-living type thing has, in the last few years, been more and more co-opted by paranoid, NWO conspiracy types who want to live as far off the grid as is possible. So now, what people who DO own land for small living are seeing more and more of, is creepy weirdos making small, mobile homes (or buying airstreams and such) and then squatting in and around other people's property claiming that the government "has no jurisdiction on them."
My stepdad owns some land with a cabin that's part of a larger community in the mountains and they basically have to deal with this a few times a year where suddenly some guy is living by the side of the road or near a river or something in some cobbled together mini-house with solar panels with signs and banners about NAZI OBAMA or whatnot..

Void 71These people started showing up around eastern Tennessee when I left in the late '90s. They don't fit in with the genuine hillbillies because 1. they have money and 2. they come from the city or suburbs. I can only imagine how bad its gotten since then.